My initial thought – and it has been a long time since we had such a thing reported – is that somehow the content of the post is what is screwing up the display. If, for example, the content was copied from another source and then simply pasted into the editor, it could potentially have all sorts of hidden formatting and styling – not to mention tags – that might be causing the issue. And such a problem can spread beyond the confines on the post area if, for example, html tags are left unbalanced in some way.

The easiest and safest way to check for this is actually directly in the database if that is possible. In that way the raw post content can be studied to look for unwanted flotsam and to see if any html tags are defined and if they all match up. Is that going to be possible?

yeah i’m sure I could view the folder through FileZilla.

Think you could give me the path to follow, to find the folder? 

I will starting looking for it now. 

Not a folder. I was referring to the actual database table. You can use the phpMyAdmin that almost certainly comes with your hosting control panel to do this surprisingly easily. If you eant to go with it I can try and talk you through the steps.

I also noticed when I click ‘edit post’ I will be able to view the post at that point but the editor itself will not appear. 

You can check out the screen shot here: http://screencast.com/t/ifOC86t6

Still trying to locate the file….

I’m not having much luck locating the post. 

I’m looking along this path: 

/public_html/marketingden.net/wp-content/sp-resources/forum-file-uploads

Can you provide me with the correct path to search in?

did you read my post above? (#4)

I just seen post #4 

I don’t know anything about phpMyAdmin

Guess I will have to learn something new again. 

I guess I could just delete the post, that would be much faster, although thats a good way to lose members.

Is there anyway to copy/paste the post on behalf of the member? I’m sure just deleting it and reposting as that person would be the best way to solve this problem. 

Maybe a future plugin? 

Well, i’m in the phpMyAdmin in my cPanel. 

I’m not really sure what i’m looking at. I’m guessing I have to access the database at this point? 

copy and paste as member??  there already is a post as plugin that lets you make a post as another member… also, using the forum tools, you can reassign a post to another user… so think its handled…

as to Andy’s question… in phpmyadmin, you will want to open your database… then go to the sfposts table… and find the entry for this post… its likely on the last page of that table…

Mr Papa said
copy and paste as member??  there already is a post as plugin that lets you make a post as another member… also, using the forum tools, you can reassign a post to another user… so think its handled…

Sweet!

Glad to know this… 

All I see under database is:

wrdp1

wrdp2

wrdp3

wrdp4

etc. 

I’m not sure how to tell what database I am trying to edit. I have a lot of subdomain. 

I went ahead and added the ‘post as’ plugin and I just changed the time it was posted. 

Worked like a charm, thanks! 

So by editing and re-filtering it cleaned it up. That’s a shame in some respects as it would have been useful knowledge to have known the cause.
By the way – you do not need the ‘post as’ plugin to be able to change the date/time a post was made.

Sorry I deleted it guys. 

I just wasn’t sure how to do it through phpmyadmin. 

If I encounter a problem like this again I will be sure to revert back to this post and we can figure it out together.